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July 23rd, 2008 issue

Clarification

Thanks so much for the excellent feature on Hana Pravda (“Actress lives on in Holocaust diary,” Tempo, July 2–8). Eva Munková’s perspective as her niece brought the piece especially alive.
Please don’t think I’m being churlish to point out an error in the piece. Bergen-Belsen was a horrific camp. By the last months of the war, the death rate among its prisoners, due to disease in its dire conditions, was appalling. But it was not an extermination camp (there were six: Auschwitz-Birkenau, Belzec, Treblinka, Sobibor, Majdanek and Chelmno) and there were no “gas chambers” there.
I do not bring this up to be pedantic. But there are people who spend their lives trying to discredit the plain facts of the Holocaust and it’s important we don’t give them credence.
David Reynolds
Prague
Radar debate
I hope the Russian move to cut gas supplies will serve as a reminder of the danger Russia poses as an energy supplier (“On the trail of Condoleezza Rice,” News, July 16–22). The Russians have and will continue to use energy as a weapon. Green energy and alternative suppliers must be utilized to their fullest extent while minimizing Russia’s role as an energy supplier. This is advice that I hope my own country will adopt.
John Kennedy
Sewell, New Jersey
Face it, in spite of its mistakes in the Middle East, the U.S. is the only competent and willing defender of Europe. Having a small U.S. base in the Czech Republic solidifies collective defense and future cooperation between our nations.
Wouldn’t you feel safer knowing that future missiles flying overhead, like a Cold War nightmare, would just be destroyed thousands of feet above? Aren’t you happy Russia trembles in her cold shoes and makes empty threats to the West now that her missiles will be useless?
Have enough intestinal fortitude to declare that the Russians were and are wrong, that the EU should only be an economic community and that a common defense with the United States ensures a sovereign Czech democracy.
Bryan Moody
Las Vegas
From the announcement of the radar base, the project struck me as a pointless scheme. Hearing of Russia’s objection, it then struck me as a provocative action.
This reminds me of when the United States announced its certainty about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, and therefore the need to eliminate Saddam Hussein. At the time, I knew pronouncements of WMD — particularly the idea that Hussein would ever fraternize with al-Qaida — were both illogical and that the announcement was too sudden to be true.
Jacquie Butterfield
Sydney


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